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From the New York Evening Sun, January 19, 

 1917. 



COUNT ILYA TOLSTOY TELLS THE STORY OF 

 THE GREEN LITTLE STICK PLANT- 

 ING THE WORD THAT WILL PUT 

 OUT THE FIRE UNCHRIS- 

 TIAN TO KILL 



Count Ilya Tolstoy, who resembles his father in his 

 stature, blue eyes, nose, and beard, and is in the 

 United States to expound the ideas of the great 

 Russian novelist, says that the answer his father 

 would give for the solution of the burning problems 

 that vex the world today is in a word of four letters. 



The failure to comprehend this word is responsible 

 for the form patriotism takes and the European war. 

 It is a word carved on a green little stick, which is said 

 to be buried in the Yasnaya Polyana, and about 

 which the Count talked in an interview today. 



Count Tolstoy, moved by this word and a growing 

 understanding of America, spoke out in a way that 

 was unusual for a European on American soil for the 

 first time. That very popular question, "What do you 

 think of New York?" was not put to the Count in that 

 form. His comment in answer to another question 

 as to the similarity between America and Russia was 

 gentle and sympathetic. 



"America," he said, "is young, as young as Russia 

 and equally unsophisticated. Your people are very 

 impressionable, readily moved. It is in marked con- 



